It has certainly been a tumultuous year here at Wow Cool. Not least of all because the physical “here” has changed. Sadly the Wow Cool Alternative Comics physical shop in Cupertino, California closed its doors after six great years. We also left the offices that we had been in for...
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Beltsander Girls by Brown Cuts Neighbors The Brown Cuts Neighbors has a long and strange history from its founding in 1980 by the pre-double digit siblings Jason and Colleen Martin, through it’s transformation into a proper band in the late 80s—when James Kopta joined up with Jason...
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The British titans of graphic novel writing in our time will be mixing it up on the ones and twos for digital radio station BBC 6Music this month. Alan Moore will be sitting in for Iggy Pop on the Confidential show, Friday October 4; and, Neil Gaiman will be a guest on the Paperback Writers show...
Read moreJohn Holmstom is putting together his first solo art exhibition since 1981! “All The Stuff I Did With The Ramones” is on exhibit at The Great Frog/72 Orchard Gallery from September 5th to October 17th. The focus is on all the work he did with the Ramones over the years (as you might...
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Decades of inadequate political action have led to a climate and ecological emergency that poses an unprecedented existential threat to humanity and all life on Earth — “politics as usual” will not meet the challenge we face. This new film with an exclusive soundtrack from Massive Attack...
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On Sunday August 18, Wow Cool house band nickname: Rebel—in the form of founding members Marc Arsenault and Michael Keegan—played their first show in eight years. We can’t believe it’s been that long either. California’s Capital City welcomed us back for an early afternoon set...
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The exhibitor list is now live for SPX Small Press Expo 2019. Go meet Joel Orff and Robin Enrico at A2 – the Alternative Comics table! Joel will debut his new book Twice Shy. Robin will be hawking copies of the new collection of his classic mini comic series Life of Vice. Other Alternative...
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Wow Cool house band nickname: Rebel will be returning to live performance this Sunday after too long of a break. “The Norcal Noisefest Crew bring you the loudest breakfast in the valley… SACRAMENTO AUDIO WAFFLE 57, where we find our heroes eating delicious waffles and drinking...
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Recent posts on Wow Cool Katriona Chapman’s Follow Me In – Reviewed by Rob Clough You’ve Seen Love Death And Robots, Right? Editorial comment moment here. It was OK. About three episodes were pretty memorable. Yeah, I’d totally watch another season. Celebrate [St. Patrick’s Day] With...
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Sentient dairy products, werewolf soldiers, robots gone wild, garbage monsters, cyborg bounty hunters, alien spiders and blood-thirsty demons from hell – all converge in eighteen NSFW animated stories. Presented by Tim Miller (Deadpool, Terminator: Dark Fate) & David Fincher (Fight...
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Get your green on! with our epic Apple Music playlist of Real Irish Punk Rock from Ireland (Northern and Republic of). All the classic bangers from the likes of Stiff Little Fingers, The Undertones, Virgin Prunes and many others are represented. Dig in to you corn beef and Guinness in style and...
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Sunday March 17 2019, saw the last Sunday installment of the 42-year long run of the syndicated Marvel Comics’ Amazing Spider-Man comic strip. The last daily strip was published on Saturday, March 23. Creators Alex Saviuk and ghost writer Roy Thomas make cameo appearances in the first...
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Aaron Smith’s long-running post-Stars of Rock project Scientific Maps has dropped a new LP into the world today. Warm Apparitions is comprised of 13 new songs, and it’s on Seehurst Records. All songs written, performed and recorded by Aaron Smith. Recorded onto a broken laptop in...
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Recent posts on Wow Cool Good Omens Official Trailer Released Steven Cerio’s ABC Book – A Drug Primer The Stupid Pages The Stupid Pages 47 – The Walrus Zippy The Pinhead Read the last two weeks of strips – right. now! New Books, Comics, Zines & Video New Backlist Titles
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Steven Cerio’s ABC Book – A Drug Primer first appeared some two decades ago as a slim hardcover book from the late Gates of Heck Press. It took you on a trip from A for “Angel Dust” to Z for “Zoloft”. The satiric psychedelic tome went on to win a Firecracker...
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With Armageddon just days away, the armies of Heaven and Hell are amassing and The Four Horsemen are ready to ride. Aziraphale, an angel, and Crowley, a demon, agree to join forces to find the missing Anti-Christ and to stop the war that will end everything. Based on the best-selling novel by...
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Drawn with a Palomino Blackwing 54 – The Exquisite Corpse pencil, generously donated to the cause by our friend Jim. Rejected idea sketches for this week’s cartoon along with many others, can be found on the AltComics Instagram.
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In like a lion! The big news this week is that we have added Zippy the Pinhead by Bill Griffith to the site. Read it everyday in full color. Strips are archived for two weeks. We also have many new reviews, features & new books, comics and zines. Recent posts on Wow Cool Preorder Dylan...
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It’s been a couple of months since the last installment of the ‘something good to read on a Sunday’ linkdown bonanza. We’ll see how far we can get down the accumulated backlog of goodness assembled in that interim. How far down the rabbit hole can you go? Art: A Hundred...
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I’m not actually sure what Crazy Rich Asians is, but this seemed like an obvious riff on it. I wrote down dozens of ridiculous possible hobbies for the caption including ‘Bolivian Basket Weaving’ and ‘Obscure Tartan Patterns’ before settling on these two, inspired...
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Former Brown Cuts Neighbors member Rob Goodale has release a three album set as free downloads on Bandcamp today under the name boosterbub. Rob was also a member of the Oakland groups Live Free or Die and Krebstar in the late 1990s. There is a massive quantity of recordings of me and Rob and a...
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Launched just now! A FundRazr campaign to preorder the long overdue and never before published Pickle #11 by Dylan Horrocks from Black Eye Press. We are hoping to get some copies in the Wow Cool shop when it comes out, but we fully urge you to support this awesome project directly. Now if we...
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Drawn October 2017.
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